"The House of the Spirits" Quotes
"The House of the Spirits" follows the Trueba family through love, politics, and magic realism in Chile.
fiction | 512 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
This was the time when I discovered that I could survive without love.
I have the feeling that I have lost something of great importance and that the rest of my life will be maimed.
The truth is that we're all in the same boat, and we're all trying to withstand the same storm.
Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
I saw the shadows of my ancestors walking single file through the jungle of my brain.
She believed in a life of the senses, in pleasure and beauty, and she had a great deal of both.
I could not imagine a world without her, and I would never be able to find my place in it.
I had the feeling that I had been waiting for this moment for a long time, that I had been waiting for this moment since the beginning of time.
She was the one who taught me to listen to the language of the stars.





